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AWS Weekly Roundup: AgentCore Runtime V2, Amazon DynamoDB bulk put items, and more (November 9, 2026)

Most of the cost of adopting something new isn’t the new thing, it’s the move. Moving a Hive table to Apache Iceberg has typically meant weeks of engineering work. Last week, Amazon S3 Tables turned that into three steps: start, sync as often as you need, complete. The source stays writable except for a few […]

AWS Weekly Roundup

AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6.1 Terra on Bedrock, Step Functions as agent tools, and more (November 2, 2026)

The agentic launches that stayed with me last week had nothing to do with how capable a model is. They were about reach. AWS Step Functions, which already orchestrates over 220 AWS services, can now be handed to an agent as a tool, so workflows teams already trust became callable without a rewrite. In the […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Polly Generative engine, TorchNeuron for Trainium, and more (October 26, 2026)

A few weeks ago I presented to a small group of commercial and technology leaders from Brazilian agribusiness at the AWS office in São Paulo. My talk ran through where generative AI fits across the different stages of an agribusiness operation, and the point I kept returning to is that the markets we call traditional […]

All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS

Amazon Prime Day 2026 was exclusively for Prime members and ran June 23–26, 2026 with millions of deals across more than 35 categories. As part of our annual tradition of sharing how AWS powered Prime Day (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025), I want to share the services and chart-topping metrics […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026)

The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the popular open source analytical database that runs in-process and executes SQL directly against files like Parquet, CSV, and JSON. DuckDB stays open source under its independent foundation […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Builder Center at 1 year, Network Scanning in Security Hub, Loom for AWS, and more (July 13, 2026)

AWS Builder Center turned one year old last week. Launched on July 9, 2025, the platform has grown from a community hub with Wishlist voting, community profiles, and a toolbox into a full ecosystem with sandbox environments, workshops, Spaces, and a Builders’ Library. To mark the anniversary, Rick Suttles published a full feature timeline covering […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: NY Summit recap, Local Zone in Hanoi, Grok 4.3 in Bedrock, price reductions, and more (June 22, 2026)

Last week AWS Summit New York City brought together thousands of customers, partners, and builders for a free, one-day event showcasing the latest in cloud and AI innovation. Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Agentic AI at AWS unveiled a stack of AI launches in his keynote, all built around one thesis: agents that compound value […]